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JOSEPH RUE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I IMPROVEMENT IIN HSYE-V-JUWIPEHS FOR STREET-RAILWAVS..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,660, dated January 9, 1872.

Specification describing an Improved Hose- Jumper, invented by JOSEPH RUE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

My invention consists of a hose-jumper for city passenger-railway cars, too fully explained hereafter to need preliminary description, and possessing the advantages of lightness, strength, and portability, it being made in three mainsections which can be readily taken apart and put together.

Figure l is a perspective View of my improved hose-jumper fitted to a railway track; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3, a plan view with the foot-way removed; and Figs. 4 and 5 detached perspective views of one of the arched side pieces, and of the foot-way partially folded.

The jumper consists of three main parts or sections, namely, of two arched side pieces, A and A', adapted to the rails X X of a city passenger or other railway track, and of a curved foot-way, B, connecting the two side pieces and resting upon ledges or shoulders a a formed on the inner edges of the same. The side pieces are preferably made of wrought-iron, and are curved and otherwise shaped in the manner best observed in Fig. 4, so as to form feet b b adapted to the tops of the rails; a recess, c, between these feet and above the rail through which the section or sections of hose can be passed, a rib, d, form-ing a continuation of the tread e of the rail, and the before-mentioned ledge or shoulder a', forming a continuation of the flat portion e' ofthe rail, and serving as a support for the foot-way B. The side pieces when fitted to the rails are connected together by hooks j', Fig. 3, hung to one ofthe said side pieces and adapted to staples j" on the inner edge of the opposite side piece, and they may be still further braced by rods g projecting outward from the center or highest point of each of the said side pieces and into crevicesbetween the stones of the pavement at either side of the rails, as shown in Figs. l and 3. The foot-Way B consists of a number of boards or slabs, h, hinged together so that they may, when not in use, be rolled or folded up, as shown in Fig. 5, the ends of the said slats resting upon the ledges or shoulders a of the arches and having holes adapted to pins t' on the latter, so as to keep them from slipping from their places. The foot-way when thus fitted to the arched side pieces strengthens the whole structure, which is perfectly firm and rigid, and capable of sustaining the weight of the heaviest car and its horses Without yielding.

The wheels of the car are directed up onto the arches by steel strips or tongues C C hung to the said arches at some little distance from their ends the said strips preventing any tendency which the arches might otherwise have to tilt up at their opposite ends if the wheels of the car were conducted directly onto them. This will be readily understood on referring to Fig. 2, where it will be seen that the pressure of the wheels ofthe car, first exerted upon the strips C, will be transmitted to the pivotingpoints y on the arches, and will consequently have a tendency to force the latter downward instead of tilting them upward at the outer ends y'. The strips G C can be folded over against the side pieces when the jumper is not in use, so as to reduce the length of the said side pieces in packing them beneath the seats of the car or into any contracted receptacle.

The jumper, having a recess, c, at each side beneath the arches and above the rails of the track, and being entirely open underneath, one or more sections of hose can be readily passed beneath the same and across the track, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, andthe jumper is of sufficient length to enable the hose to be slightly moved if necessary, or to be extended diagonally beneath the same, as well as at right angles to the track. The jumper also being gradually curved upward from each end toward-,the center, and being perfectly rigid, will offer very little obstruction to the passage of the cars, and will eli'ectually protect the hose In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speoioation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH RUE.

Witnesses WM. Af STEEL, HARRY SMITH. 

